Bundle Watch it instead of reading it Things obvious the moment you watch them move, and hard to explain in a sentence.
How Blackwing Pencils Are Made California cedar goes to Japan and comes back a pencil, in Blackwing's first film of its own process
Pneumatic Tube Mail Twenty-seven miles of pipe under New York, 600 letters to a canister, 35 miles an hour
Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
Analog TV Simulator A Mac app that rebuilds the entire analogue TV chain — camera tube to CRT phosphor — from physics
Finds
- Making Beats with Bird Song Benjamin Mjönes samples nature videos into live beats
- Ghostmashers The Ghostbusters theme mashed with 11 other 1980s hits
- The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games Eight classic strategies played 312,898,560 times against each other
- Phosphene Your own videos as Mac wallpapers, picked in System Settings
- All the Percent Every percentage spoken on Star Trek: TNG, in one supercut
- Every US Electrical Outlet Explained Practical Engineering on the 35-plus outlet types hiding behind "two-prong"
- Chasing a plane across the moon A photographer's ten-year attempt to film a jet crossing the lunar disc, and why he walked away
- Les Fo'Plafonds Play The Simpsons Danny Elfman's theme, played on bicycle pumps, pots and a steam iron
- Cacophony, a Marble Machine Jelle's Marble Runs builds a machine whose only job is noise
- Alien Size Comparison A 3D scale chart running from microscopic to bigger than a galaxy
- The Bayeux Tapestry Story in Full A 58-minute scroll through the whole embroidered chronicle, timed to its British Museum debut
- Mr. Brightside, Sung by 144 Movies The Killers' hit reassembled lip to lip from 144 different films
- The Genius Logic of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet It isn't phonetic, and NATO didn't invent it
- Genius Design Details: Pips and Nubs Three small bumps that do more work than they look like
- Toaster vs. Freezer: Which Would Win? A 162-second answer to a podcast argument
- 12 Crank Mechanisms Visualized Twelve mechanisms drawn on one sheet, each proving something about itself before it moves
- Wes Anderson Picks Nine Criterion Films A road-trip stack pulled in under three minutes at the Criterion Mobile Closet
- If All the Water on Earth Disappeared The ships are the part you had not thought about
- A Duck Made of Horseshoes Rusted shoes and worn-out files, bent into a bird taking off
- The Wavy Window Paradox Why office glass ripples from outside and not from inside
- Josh Gluckstein A life-sized manta ray, made of the boxes it shipped in
- Zhang Yulin One sheet, folded to a wedge, cut through every layer at once
- Chronova's Impossible Scribe It gets longer, and the tip comes out the other way
- Alternative Accordion Radiohead, Blur and Tame Impala, played on a squeezebox
- How Does an Enigma Machine Work? A 3D teardown that follows one keypress through the whole rotor path
- If You Rode a Ship's Anchor to the Mariana Trench The drop to Challenger Deep, in real time, on the Titanic's anchor
- How Ancient Greek Warships Worked A 3D animation that finally makes three tiers of oars make sense
- Damascus Glass Knife The folding technique that patterns steel, applied to molten blue and white glass
- Pneumatic Tube Mail Sixty years of American post travelling underground at 35 mph
- The Popsicle Stick House Two years of hot glue, compressed into sixteen minutes
- A Windows PC in a Walnut Hollow out the shell, fit an IPS display in the lid, boot XP
- Painting Inside a Crystal Ball Every stroke applied backwards, through a hole the width of a pencil
- V8 Engine-Powered Blender Four horsepower, eight cylinders, one smoothie
- Supercut.org Andy Baio's archive of 592 obsessive video montages, back and searchable
- European Country Names Explained One of them means land of the rabbits
- Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
- Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
- Caption Comet Burns social-style captions into video entirely on your Mac, with no account or cloud
- Analog TV Simulator Broadcast physics, not a scanline filter
- A Tour of Athens' Acropolis with 3D Reconstructions Manuel Bravo's video walks the Acropolis as it stood in 432 BC
- A Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall, Summer 1989 Restored amateur footage from months before the Wall's collapse
- Chloe VS History A time-travelling LA influencer in ancient Rome, Tang dynasty Chang'an, et al.
- Majestic Studios AI-reconstructed daily life in ancient cities, on YouTube
- ShotGlass A screen recorder that makes demos look like an Apple commercial
- Mesmerizing 4K Video of Cat-5 Typhoon Sinlaku Remastered satellite footage of a 2008 super-typhoon
- Lapser Studio Timelapse screen recordings without a 30 GB raw file or a video editor